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原帖由 extreme 于 21-5-2009 10:56 发表
那个地方就是交通不便，所以去的人少。圣诞岛不会没有航班的，可能只是取消了几个地方的航班而已。
Transport and commerce
Cassidy International Airport (IATA code CXI) is located just north of Banana and North East Point. It has a paved runway with a length of 6,900 feet (2,103 m) and was for some time the only airport in Kiribati to serve the Americas, via an Air Pacific flight to Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. This service was suspended September 2, 2008, because of the cracked runway surface, and there is currently no regular service to or from CXI.
Previously (ended on April 26, 2004) a Boeing 737 charter flight by Air Kiribati, operated by Aloha Airlines, connected Kiritimati to Honolulu every week. Provisional jet flights replaced it for some time. From October 2005 to September 2008, Air Pacific made a weekly stop between Honolulu and Nadi in Fiji.
The abandoned Aeon Field, constructed before the British nuclear tests, is located on the southeastern peninsula, NW of South East Point.
In the early 1950s, Wernher von Braun proposed using this island as a launch site for manned spacecraft. There is a Japanese JAXA satellite tracking station; the abandoned Aeon Field had at one time been proposed for reuse by the Japanese for their now-canceled HOPE-X space shuttle project. Kiritimati is also located fairly close to the Sea Launch satellite launching spot at 0° N 154° W, about 370 km (200 nautical miles) to the east in international waters.
Most of the atoll's food supplies have to be imported. Potable water can be in short supply, especially around November in La Niña years. A large and modern jetty, handling some cargo, was built by the Japanese at London. Marine fish provide a healthy portion of the island's nutrition, although overfishing has caused a drastic decrease in the populations of large, predatory fish over the last several years.
Exports of the atoll are mainly copra (dried coconut pulp); the state-owned coconut plantation covers about 51 square kilometres (20 sq mi). In addition, goods like aquarium fish and seaweed are exported; a 1970s project to commercially breed Artemia salina brine shrimp in the salt ponds was abandoned in 1978. In recent years there are attempts to explore the viability of live crayfish and chilled fish exports and salt production.[1]
Furthermore, there is a small amount of tourism, mainly associated with anglers interested in lagoon fishing (for bonefish in particular) or offshore fishing. Week-long ecotourism packages during which some of the normally closed areas can be visited are also available.[1] There is some tourism-related infrastructure, such as a small hotel, rental facilities, and takeaways. |
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